Near and Middle Eastern Studies
Students
 |
Ayda Apa Pomeshikov ayda@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2019) |
Dissertation Title: “The Prophet was a Refugee too: Islamic Humanitarianism and Refugees’ Search for Rights and Belonging in Turkey” Website |
 |
Sergen Avci | Research Interests: Ottoman and Turkish literature, gender and sexuality, cultural history, translation and transmission studies. |
 |
Tuna Basibek tunab@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2020) |
Research Interests: Ottoman and Turkish History, Russian imperial history, Circassians and Northern Caucasus refugee and forced migration studies. |
 |
Berfin Cicek bcicek@uw.edu | Research Interests: Modern Iranian Literature, Modern Turkish Literature, Migrant Literature and Multilingualism, Comparative Modernisms, Testimony and Trauma, Memory Studies |
 |
Melinda Cohoon mecohoon@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2020) |
Dissertation Title: “Affective Entanglement: A Virtual Ethnography of Iranian and Iranian-American Gamers in World of Warcraft and Social Media.” academia.edu page |
 |
Busra Demirkol bd092@uw.edu |
Research Interests: Ottoman and Turkish history; state-society relations; sociological theory; crime and deviance; women, sex and gender |
 |
Nadav Ganon
nadavg@uw.edu |
Research Interests: Jewish-Arab encounter in late Ottoman and Mandate Palestine, Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism, Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jews, History of Emotions, Settler-Colonialism |
 |
Nida Kiali nidak@uw.edu |
Research Interests: The question of Arab identity and the issue of modernity among Palestinians living in Israel. |
 |
Anna Learn learna@uw.edu |
Research Interests: Contemporary Persian-language fiction; contemporary Spanish-language fiction; translation studies; literary translation. academia.edu page |
 |
Corinna Nichols cor1nna@uw.edu |
Research Interests: Hair and headdresses in the ancient Near East, wordplay, and cuneiform writing. |
 |
Roman Pomeshchikov romanpom@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2020) |
Research Interests: State-society relations, electronic governance, development in Turkic countries Website |
 |
Bahar Saadat sbs33@uw.edu |
Research Interests: Iranian studies; Modern Persian literature; Comparative literature; Middle Eastern cinema; Cinema of Iran |
 |
Solmaz Shakerifard solmus@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2020) |
Dissertation Title: “Aural Aesthetics of Modernity: Iranian Classical Music and its Relationship with the ‘West'” |
 |
April Tong
toapril@uw.edu |
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Turkish literature, Comparative Literature and World Literature, translation studies and (un)translatability, postcolonialism, comparative imperialism and modernity, 20th Century diaspora, melancholia, cultural geography |
 |
Sasha Ward
sashay23@uw.edu |
Research interests: Ottoman and Turkish history; Sephardic Jewish cultural and linguistic preservation; Jewish diasporas; nationalism and xenophobia; conspiracy theories and their effects on mass media and public opinion; state-society relations |